From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2016 16:39:28 GMT
Subject: Re: Extending "extended SHA1" syntax to traverse through gitlinks?
Message-ID: <xmqqy43nwibj.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <ab6e29c1-ea6d-c1c5-e69f-867c16cc736a@gmail.com>

Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

> Especially that for submodules you need:
>
> $ git --git-dir=subdir/.git cat-file -p $(git rev-parse HEAD:subdir):file
>
> (or something like that), assuming that you start in supermodule.
>   ...
>
> But perhaps '//' would be better.

If the users have to know where they need to use different
separator, I do not think it is worth complicating the plumbing to
do this for them.  I'd rather keep things simple, and let the users
build complex stuff on top of the plumbing.